>      How to make the content of an element mandatory in XML Schema???
>      For example:
>      If I have an element "ELEM" of type xsd:string, then the valid values
>  for this element could be:
>      1. <ELEM>some string</ELEM>
>      2. <ELEM /> - I don't want this to happen in the instance document. I
>  want to mandate that there be some
>          content for this element. How do I do this???
>  

You could set the minLength facet to 1.

  <xsd:element name="ELEM"> 
    <xsd:simpleType> 
      <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string"> 
        <xsd:minLength value="1"/> 
      </xsd:restriction> 
    </xsd:simpleType> 
  </xsd:element> 

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Bryce K. Nielsen
SysOnyx Inc. (www.sysonyx.com)
Makers of xmlLinguist, the Text-to-XML Translator
(http://www.topxml.com/xmllinguist)


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